Abina and the Important Men A Graphic History

Name: Abina and the Important Men A Graphic History
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ISBN: 9780199844395

ISBN-10: 0199844399

ISBN-13: 9780199844395

Edition: 2011

Authors: Trevor R. Getz, Liz Clarke

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The first of its kind, Abina and the Important Men is a compelling and powerfully illustrated "graphic history" based on an 1876 court transcript of a West African woman named Abina, who was wrongfully enslaved and took her case to court. The book is a microhistory that does much more thansimply depict an event in the past; it uses the power of illustration to convey important themes in world history and to reveal the processes by which history is made.The story of Abina Mansah - a woman "without history" who was wrongfully enslaved, escaped to British-controlled territory, and then took her former master to court - takes place in the complex world of the Gold Coast at the onset of late…

Book details

List price: $19.95
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication date: 9/22/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 208
Size: 7.25" wide x 10.25" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English



Table of Contents



The graphic history



The transcript



Historical context


The Gold Coast, c.1876


The British Civilizing Mission


The British Civilizing Mission


The Civilizing Mission in the Gold Coast


Slavery in the Gold Coast


The Atlantic Slave Trade and Abolition


Abina Mansah and the Important Men



Reading guide


Whose Story is This?



A staircase of voices



Silences



Representation and Translation


Is this a "true" story?



Reconstructing Abina's story



Deconstructing the courtroom transcript



Reconstructing Abina's "truths" or constructing our own?


Is this "authentic" history?



Local forms of history-telling



The personal and the collective authentic



History as a forum or a temple



Abina in the classroom


Abina for the world history classroom


Abina for the African history/African studies classroom


Abina and colonialism


Abina and the history of slavery


Gendering Abina's story


Reading questions


Introductory questions, for students at all levels


Questions for students at the university or college level


Additional questions for advanced undergraduate and graduate students


Timeline of Events


Further Resources


Abina Mansah


Slavery and Abolition on the Gold Coast


About Colonialism and the Gold Coast


General histories of Africa


Imperialism and Colonialism


Gender and African History


Web Resources


Glossary


List of maps and images



Location of Gold Coast, 16th-18th century



Language distribution in Ghana today



Asante c. 1700



Asante and the Gold Coast in the 1870s, showing sites of Abina Mansah's enslavement



Page of transcript from Regina v. Quamina Eddoo


Further readings